Outlier

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Rocky Mountains

...of the major rivers flowing from the Rocky Mountains across eastern Montana are deeply incised. Scattered upon the plains and plateau surfaces are eight small mountain masses called Rocky Mountain
outliers, which are like islands of the Rockies set out upon the plains.

Scottish Highlands

...pronounced dissection of a highland massif that has been scored and plucked by the Ice Age glaciers. Many sea-drowned, glacier-widened river valleys (fjords) penetrate deeply into the mountains, the
outliers of which rise from the sea in stately, elongated peninsulas or emerge in hundreds of offshore islands.